Well, Peter Mc should be happy, as RD have released D3/Windows 7.5.5,
which works over Vista & Win2008. I've also had the Beta running
happily over Win7 RC, so looks "good" moving into the future.

If you are interested, release notes are
ftp://ftp.rainingdata.com/pub/NT/7.5...leaseNotes.pdf

Ross Ferris <rossf (AT) stamina (DOT) com.au> wrote:

....with usual lack of fanfare. The only notes I see about this
are a couple words changed in the product status page, and of course
if you know to look at the FTP site you'll find it there.

Seriously - it's good to see this go production.

But I can't wait to see Peter's reaction to the note that the DBMS has
only been certified over Vista Business and Ultimate, not the Home
editions.

Expecting history to repeat itself as it often does...

And of course the next question will be "What about Windows 7?" Ross
is running W7 RC (pre-production) and I suspect at some point after W7
goes production TL will do final certification before announcing
support. I could be wrong, but don't expect certification of D3 over
W7RCx. They're usually very conservative about that, rightfully so
IMO. It's tough to "certify" a platform that's not production yet.
OS vendors make a lot of changes just prior to final release and
pushing out a product before that final release can mean your software
doesn't work with the production OS. Microsoft says W7 will be
available on October 22. I'm guessing that means we won't see D3/W7
until sometime in or after January. They may surprise us with a
version of D3 that's certified over the latest RC, or maybe just
certified for developer use over W7. With information ever flowing
only inward at that company, who knows what they'll do next.

This also means there will be a lot of people still on Vista saying
"but Windows 7 is out now, where's D3W7"? And my guess is that there
will be broken things that aren't fixed for Vista because it's already
a dead platform and both Microsoft and TigerLogic are racing to get
W7-compliant software out and get over this Vista disaster as fast as
possible.

So... My personal advice is: if you're not on Vista, stay off it. Put
your D3 over W2008, which is a real server after all and not a
glorifed workstation, or wait for Windows 7.

YMMV

T

For anyone who missed it:
nospamNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/2009/06/vista2.html

I blabbed:
OK OK, I got the email announcement 2 seconds after I hit send on this
posting. I keep forgetting they send out announcements right at the
end of the day.

Hey, have you ever noticed how some companies make big product
announcements just before a holiday when they won't be around to
answer questions or provide support for people who are responding to
their marketing announcements?

RD&C

T

On Jul 3, 11:14*am, Tony Gravagno
<address.is.in.po... (AT) removethis (DOT) com.invalid> wrote:
..
We are NEARLY on the same page. MY personal advice: Install over *nix
in preference to windows EVERY TIME! And if you HAVE Vista already,
UPGRADE to the W7 RC!

Hi
My advice is to always install Windows Vista Business and Premium for small
sites and Windows 2008 Server for larger ones. Steer clear of Windows 7
until it is actually released and field tested. As a famous comedian always
said "may your God be with you" to which I add "if you do not use the FSI"
because if you don't you will undoubtedly call on the deity :-)
Peter McMurray
"Ross Ferris" <rossf (AT) stamina (DOT) com.au> wrote

On Jul 3, 11:14 am, Tony Gravagno
<address.is.in.po... (AT) removethis (DOT) com.invalid> wrote:
..
We are NEARLY on the same page. MY personal advice: Install over *nix
in preference to windows EVERY TIME! And if you HAVE Vista already,
UPGRADE to the W7 RC!